It was supposed to be used by the U.S. to manage the dollar gold standard in the 20th century, but instead the principle of an automatic, non-discretionary system was abandoned in favor of Keynesian interest-rate twiddling.

Pesident Obama is more then likely right unemployment will reach 10% or more this year and there is no hope for it to get better until our government officials understand that by letting so many items made in other countries in for free our working class people or going to be relaxed under a bridge somewhere twiddling or thumbs.